Write A B C D on scratch paper and cross letters as you kill them. It is the paper version of the on-screen eliminator. A preset guess letter is a different habit, in letter of the day.
Four letters, then a pick
Scratch paper is still issued on the digital test, in digital ACT scratch paper. Format choice is in digital or paper.
If nothing is left but a guess, use your letter of the day and move, in the two-pass method.
The bottom line
Grid the four letters. Cross, then pick. Do not hold dead choices in working memory.
Start practicing
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